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Thirukkural 1252

Chapter 126: நிறையழிதல் (Reserve Overcome) · Love

Kural 1252

காமம் எனவொன்றோ கண்ணின்றென் நெஞ்சத்தை
யாமத்தும் ஆளும் தொழில்.

Kaamam Enavondro Kannindren Nenjaththai
Yaamaththum Aalum Thozhil

What men call love is the one thing of merciless power; It gives my soul no rest, e'en in the midnight hour

Meaning

Even at midnight is my mind worried by lust, and this one thing, alas! is without mercy.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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